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Dava Sobel talked about her book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, about women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory, stu…

Panelists talked about the history of women in the sciences. Panelists included Nathalia Holt, author of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Ma…

Dava Sobel talked about her book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. She was interviewed while at the Texas Book Festival. The program included schedule informat…

Dava Sobel talked about her forthcoming book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. She was interviewed while at the annual book publishing trade show, Book Expo Am…

Dava Sobel talked about her book The Planets, published by Viking. She told how she came to write the book and develop its structure. She read portions of her book about Venus, the Moon, Mar…

Authors participated in a panel discussion on natural disasters. Ms. Sobel spoke about the solar system and the possible finding of a 10th planet. Professor Emanuel discussed the formation o…

Ms. Sobel talked about her new book, Planets and her previous book, Longitude.

Moderated by Mr. Taylor, prize-winning nonfiction writers described how they found and developed the ideas for their popular nonfiction books. After their remarks they answered audience memb…

Ms. Sobel talked about her book, Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Faith, Science and Love, published by Walker and Company. She talked about the story of the famed scientist’s rela…

Ruth Gruber talked about her memoir Inside of Time: My Journey From Alaska to Israel, published by Carroll and Graf Publishers. It is the sequel to her earlier memoir, Ahead of Time. In an o…

Dava Sobel talked about her book, "Galileo’s Daughter", and about writing biographies of scientists. She also wrote Longitude. She answered questions from the audience.

Dava Sobel talked about her book, Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 with Bookmark, published by Walker and Company. The book follows up her earlier book, Galileo’s …

Moderated by Mr. Flatow, award-winning writers talked about their writing experiences and the difficulties associated with science as subject matter. Sobel is the author of Longitude and oth…

Dava Sobel talked about her book Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love, published by Walker and Co. The book is about the heretical scientist Galileo Galilei, b…

Authors at the Key West Literary Festival recommended their favorite science books to President Bush.

Author Dava Sobel discussed her book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. She described the life of John Harrison who disco…

In celebration of BookTV’s one year anniversary, authors: Peter Collier,Author, ‘THE ROOSEVELTS: AN AMERICAN SAGA’ David Levering Lewis, Author,'W.E.B.DUBOIS:BIOGRAPHY OF A RACE' Dava S…

Book Expo America hosted an author breakfast. It featured Dava Sobel, author of “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time"; Alice Wa…

Ms. Sobel talked about her book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. This explains how John Harrison, discovered how to determi…

Authors, editors and publicists at the Women’s National Book Association, discussed various characteristics of best selling fiction and nonfiction. They examined various factors, such as na…